Reports: Starbucks, Green Mountain In Talks To Forge Coffee Partnership

02/14/11 Specialty coffee retailer Starbucks Coffee Co. (SBUX) is reportedly Monday in talks with smaller rival Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR) in order to forge a partnership in the new and fast-growing U.S. single-serve coffee market, which is currently dominated by Green Mountain's Keurig brewer with a 80 percent market share.

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The Week[end]: April 29 - May 1, 2011

04/29/11 Spring in Madison crests this May Day weekend with the Capital City Jazz Fest, Crazylegs Classic, and the Mifflin Street Block Party. The calendar also includes: a visit by the Found Footage Festival; the Dayglow and New Music Everywhere parties and benefits for La FEM Coffee Co-op and Friends of the Waisman Center; and, more live music from F. Stokes, Zola Jesus, Generationals, The Von Ehrics ...

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Coffee sampling in Hawaii's new growing region

05/10/11 Visits are welcomed, if not advertised, at Aikane Plantation Coffee Co. at Pahala, on Hawaii's Big Island. ( Aikane Plantation ) As a group of visitors from the San Francisco Bay Area toured the Kona Pacific Farmers Cooperative's coffee plantation ([808] 328-2411, http://www.kpfc.com ) in Captain Cook on the Big Island, they listened intently as their guide told them ...

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